Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Formerly, a knight's wife was given the title of Dame before her name, but this usage was replaced by Lady during the 17th century. The title of Dame as the official equivalent of a knight was introduced in 1917 with the introduction of the Order of the British Empire, and was subsequently extended to the Royal Victorian Order in 1936, the ...
The form 'Sir' is first documented in English in 1297, as the title of honour of a knight, and latterly a baronet, being a variant of sire, which was already used in English since at least c. 1205 (after 139 years of Norman rule) as a title placed before a name and denoting knighthood, and to address the (male) Sovereign since c. 1225, with ...
In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.
The French poet Chrétien de Troyes wrote the romance Yvain, the Knight of the Lion at the same time he was working on Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart during the 1170s. In it, the eponymous hero Yvain seeks to avenge his cousin Calogrenant who had been defeated by an otherworldly knight beside a magical storm-making fountain in the forest of ...
This category pertains to women entitled to the courtesy title of Lady through marriage to a British knight. (Substantive knighthoods, not honorary.) (Substantive knighthoods, not honorary.) Wives of men who were already British peers when they received knighthoods should not be included.
Knights Bachelor are the most ancient sort of British knight [2] (the rank existed during the 13th-century reign of King Henry III), but Knights Bachelor rank below knights of chivalric orders. A man who is knighted is formally addressed as "Sir [First Name] [Surname]" or "Sir [First Name]" and his wife as "Lady [Surname]".
Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton, just received another new title. (And no, we’re not talking about the recent “Cornwall” addition.) Today, King Charles III addressed the world ...
A knight and the title character of the comic strip. Sir Balin: Arthurian legend: A knight of King Arthur's court before the Round Table existed. Bedivere: Arthurian legend: A Knight of the Round Table. Sir Toby Belch: Twelfth Night: The uncle of Olivia. Black Knight: Monty Python and the Holy Grail: A knight whom King Arthur fights to cross a ...